M9. wrote:
I must say that the network, firewall and networkprinting, whether it is cups or samba shared printing, is an absolute mess.. :-(
I don't exactly recognise the situation. I don't use the openSUSE firewall, so I can't say much about that, but the rest works just fine here. We have about 20 servers, plus a large(ish) cluster and 1 Windows workstation.
It is impossible to find a printer over the network, even if specified the exact adress, or as i noticed yesterday, the shares are not consistent: it is impossible to add new shares, and old ones suddenly 'do not exist'....
(I am realy interrested in the cause of this: Overdone security, or incompatible logonsytems?)
Cups has never caused any such problems for me - the one challenge I had was getting printing from Windows to work too, and even that was quickly dealt with.
It is realy frustrating, that if things are ok, and than with no change from one moment to another, stop working..
Definitely. I just doubt if that is the case, to be perfectly honest.
The way I see it, a pc or laptop with suse installed on it, should be pluggable into any network, able to find the shares, browse them, share files which can be browsed, and above all: is able to find the available printers in the network.
Yep, that sounds about right. Depending on how open things are, you might need to adjust authentication here or there.
Just few steps to go.....
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